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Hitler's Professors: Second Edition » (2nd Edition)

Book cover image of Hitler's Professors: Second Edition by Max Weinreich

Authors: Max Weinreich
ISBN-13: 9780300053876, ISBN-10: 0300053878
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: May 1999
Edition: 2nd Edition

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Author Biography: Max Weinreich

Book Synopsis

This classic book examines the role of leading scholars - philosophers, historians, and scientists - in Hitler's rise to power and eventual war of extermination against the Jews. Written in 1946 by one of the greatest scholars of European Jewish history and culture, it is now reissued with a new introduction by the prominent historian Martin Gilbert.

Table of Contents

Planning and Preparation
IThe Problem Stated5
IIGerman Scholarship, 1918-1933. The Early Years of the Hitler Regime10
IIIHow the Scholars Came into the Nazi Camp17
IVAlfred Rosenberg, the Apostle of Racialism22
VRacial Science: Eugen Fischer, Ernst Rudin, and Others27
VILegal and Political Science: Hans Frank, Carl Schmitt, and Others36
VIIThe Beginning of the New Anti-Jewish Science: Gerhard Kittel40
VIIIWalter Frank. The Reichsinstitut fur Geschichte des neuen Deutschlands (Reich Institute for the History of the New Germany)45
IXThe Reichsinstitut fur Geschichte des neuen Deutschlands, 1935-1938. Wilhelm Grau50
XThe Reichsinstitut fur Geschichte des neuen Deutschlands, 1938-1941. Hess, Streicher, Keitel as Patrons54
XIGoebbels' Institut zum Studium der Judenfrage (Institute for the Study of the Jewish Question). Wilhelm Ziegler58
XIIWalter Grundmann. The Institut zur Erforschung des judischen Einflusses auf das deutsche kirchliche Leben (Institute for the Study of Jewish Influence on German Church Life)62
XIIIPreparing for War: the Concepts of Folk and Space67
XIVOn the Eve of War: Jewry = Bolshevism. Peter-Heinz Seraphim75
XVWalter Gross. The Stage Set for Conquest. Hitler's Prophecy79
Large-Scale Experimenting
XVIPolish Jewry in German Hands. Jewry = Plutocracy84
XVIIThe Ghetto in Scholarly Theory and in Practice89
XVIIIHans Frank's Institut fur deutsche Ostarbeit (Institute for German Work in the East)95
XIXThe Inauguration of Rosenberg's Institut zur Erforschung der Judenfrage (Institute for Research into the Jewish Question) in Frankfort on-the-Main97
XXThe Staff, the Library, and the Organ of the Frankfort Institute101
XXIThe Frankfort Conference of March, 1941. Scholarly Backing for the "Universal European Solution of the Jewish Question"106
XXIISecrets of the Anti-Jewish Propaganda. The Representatives of the Conquered and Satellite Countries at the Frankfort Conference113
XXIIIBetween the Fall of France and the Attack on the Soviet Union. The Concept of Greater Space119
XXIVScholarly Backing for the Assault on the Eastern Space126
XXVPreparing for the Extinction of the Jews131
XXVIAnti-Jewish Research Institutions on German Models in Italy, France, Lithuania, Croatia, Hungary, and Denmark134
XXVIIThe Extinction of the Jews in the Eastern Territories Begins. Scholarly Theories Reappearing in Wehrmacht Orders140
XXVIIIThe Extinction Procedure until the End of 1941. The Clash between Economic Interest and Political Goals145
XXIXNew Tasks for German Scholarship after Pearl Harbor: Jewry the Link between Plutocracy and Bolshevism158
Execution of the Program
XXXJewry - the Only Front on Which Victory Could be Won. Extinction of the Jews in the Government General163
XXXINew Developments in Racial Science: Refolking vs. Purity of Blood170
XXXIIRefolking the Letts and the Poles177
XXXIIISplitting Up the Poles: Refolking, Enslavement, Extinction179
XXXIVContinuing Extinction of the Jews: Revision in Theory, Consistency in Practice184
XXXVThe Scientific Aspects of the Death Factories195
XXXVIThe Jew as a Demon. Belief in Demons and Plain Deceit. Ritual Murder202
XXXVIIThe Indoctrination Literature of the Wehrmacht and of the Foreign Ministry208
XXXVIIIAnti-Jewish Research Literature in the Twilight-of-the-Gods Period214
XXXIXAn International Anti-Jewish Congress in 1944219
XXXXAnti-Semitism an Avowed "Secret Weapon"235
XXXXISummary and Conclusions239
Facsimiles of Excerpts243
Index of Persons and Institutions261
Index of Periodicals, Serials, and Publishing Houses288

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